Catalogue of the Westbury collection of cookery books. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 15-16 February 1965 ]
by Sotheby & Co
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th and 16th February 1965. Green printed wrappers, 8vo,. 100 pp, ills. 507 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Incunabula, including Platina's de Honesta Voluptate, Venice 1475 and Cividale 1480, the second and third editions of the first printed Cookery Book, Manfredï's Liber De Homine, 1474, and Petrus de Crescentiis, Il Libro Della Agricoltura, 1490; Messisburgo's Banchetti, 1549, Scappi's Opera, 1570, Mata's Arte de Reposteria, 1474, and Other Continental Books of the 16th to 19th century; STC and Wing Books Books on Carving, Including Aragon's Arte Cisoria, Madrid 1766, the Earliest Treatise in Spanish, on Wine and Vine-Growing, Dietetics and Horticulture; Mrs Rundle's New System of Domestic Cookery, 1806, First Edition, and Works by Athenaeus, Apicius, Mrs. Beeton, Brillat-Savarin, Careme, Corvado, Parmentier and Pisanelli. Near Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-49249
- Title
- Catalogue of the Westbury collection of cookery books. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 15-16 February 1965 ]
- Author
- Sotheby & Co
- Format/Binding
- Green printed wrappers, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in
- Publisher
- Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th and 16th February 1965
- Date Published
- illustrated auction catalogue f
- Pages
- 100 pp, ills
- Keywords
- Sotheby & Co. Sotheby's auction catalogue Westbury collection Westbury, Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, Baron - Library - Catalogs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food & Drink (Bibliographies);
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About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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